Funcom has announced the launch date for its latest MMO, The Secret World. The highly anticipated MMO will go live on 19 June, two months later than its intended April launch: “Allowing for even more time to polish the game really shows just how much faith Funcom as a company has in ‘The Secret World’ [...]
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The Vita’s Challenge: A History of Portable Competition
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2012
Today marks the official U.S. launch of PlayStation Vita. It’s a great system, but it has its work cut out for it. Nintendo’s 3DS is making serious inroads after a soft launch, and Sony runs the very real risk of seeing history repeat itself. To date, Nintendo has triumphed against every handheld competitor to challenge [...]
Aion: Ascension
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2012
[Game website] A number of months after the Korean server got the version 3.0 update for Aion (link), the North American players are finally getting something to cheer about. Aion will be going Free to Play (F2P) like its European counterpart (link) and will boot the new version 3.0 update into the package as well. [...]
OP-ED: Nintendo Direct Unlikely to Reveal Redesigned 3DS Tomorrow
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
A series of Nintendo Direct events are set to take place tomorrow, as creatively announced today through Swapnote messages sent out to 3DS owners. This is the third time Nintendo Direct is taking place and as Nintendo of America and Europe will each be hosting their own videos, as opposed to a broadcast only in [...]
Gotham City Impostors Beta Begins October 5
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
Beta testers have just been informed by email the schedule for the upcoming PC beta of Gotham City Impostors. Steam codes have been emailed out to those who were accepted today, and although the client can be downloaded now, the beta itself won’t begin until next week — and even then, it will only be [...]
Royal Quest
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
[Game website] I am guessing most of you have forgotten about this MMO, and luckily a new trailer released today helped refreshed mine as well. Royal Quest is developed by Katauri Interactive, the company behind the King’s Bounty game franchise, including King’s Bounty: The Legend (link) and King’s Bounty: Armored Princess (link). This new trailer [...]
Syndicate Review: Starbreeze’s Latest Excels at Co-Op But Falters in Single-player
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
“Some say I’ve been lazy,” admits the King of All Cosmos in the opening sequence of Touch My Katamari. “Phoning it in.” This is meant to be hilarious — that crazy King, always so pompous, yet vain enough to be stung by criticism! — but the wittiness of the whole thing is badly undermined by [...]
Portal 2′s Tardy DLC Comes Out on Tuesday
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012
Though it took longer than expected, the first downloadable content pack for Portal 2 will soon be here on all three of the game’s platforms. Portal 2: Peer Review, as it’s been officially titled, was announced shortly after the game’s release in April. It was scheduled for a summer release, and when it began to [...]
Rejuvenated 3DS Could Provide a Home For Mid-Tier Games
Posted by admin on February 20th, 2012
In what can only be described as a remarkable turnaround, the 3DS has gone from struggling badly enough that it necessitated a steep price drop to breaking a record by reaching 5 million units sold in Japan faster than any other platform. It took 52 weeks to reach that milestone, compared with 56 weeks for [...]
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Posted by admin on February 20th, 2012
Earlier today, NCsoft released its financial report for the 4th Quarter of 2011, which is the final 4 months. As seen n the chart below, Aion is the king of earnings for the mega corporation, with Lineage 1 on a near 2nd place. This is really quite an achievement for Lineage 1, seeing how the [...]
